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Climbing aster carolinianus
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Posted by mollydog 6 PA (My Page) on Wed, Oct 28, 09 at 21:34
| My climbing aster is full of buds just waiting to burst open. This is the first year it has reached over 5'. I have never seen it bloom and am quite anxious to see. Any of you have any experience with climbing aster? |
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RE: Climbing aster carolinianus
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| You are going to enjoy this vine. Here in the south it can become almost a weed vine, scrambling over everything unless cut back to the ground each winter. I grow mine at the base of Savannah hollies. Each spring the vine scrambles up the trees using them as support, cascading off the branches and blossoming at the same time the holly berries are bright red. The sight of red berries and purple aster blooms is a stunning color combination. In your Zone 6 it probably will have more refined growth. Carolina aster roots easily by layering. |
RE: Climbing aster carolinianus
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| Thank you nandina. I am going to try and root some next year. My buds still haven't opened yet...keeping my fingers crossed. |
RE: Climbing aster carolinianus
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| This is a fun, plant and forget plant. Grows in sun and shade, dry or moist. I have it growing through a climbing cecille bruner rose on the side of a garage...wretched soil,blazing sun and heat, but it does get water. It blooms faithfully every year when little else does in that area and it has been there 15 years. It gets quite "thickety" and some years I cut it all the way back and some years (the lazy years), I look the other way. I also have it growing in 75% shade where it does get cut back...the blooms are a little later, but just as many. It crawls through rosebud salvia involucrata (a 6 foot monster that blooms at the same time), plain old pink echinacea which also still has blooms (if randomly dead-headed) and a climbing pink rose which has a pretty good fall bloom at the same time. It's not a show stopper plant, but you can't beat it for ease and blooming when not much else is. Both of mine in both locations are in full bloom now. I always wanted to try it with beauty berry (callicarpa) which berries at the same time and salvia leucantha which also blooms at the same time...one of those plant combos I would like to try but just not have gotten around to trying. |
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